LET’S LEAD THE CHARGE TOGETHER FOR WORKER SAFETY
IN NEW JERSEY
Don’t wait. Act now to end workplace abuse in New Jersey. Building on the foundational efforts of Senator Linda R. Greenstein, Chair of the New Jersey Senate Labor Committee who has long supported protections for workers, we push forward with the Workplace Psychological Safety Act. Urge your local representatives today to pass the bill to support these essential workers’ rights. Be a part of the movement to safeguard New Jersey workers.
Governments regulate
the environmental safety of the workplace,
but who’s making sure the mental health
of U.S. workers is protected?
The short answer is no one.
The idea behind the Workplace Psychological Safety Act is that employees currently have no legal recourse under the law if they can’t connect the intent of their abuser to their membership in a PROTECTED CLASS, even if they are in one. The law leaves workers, especially women and people of color, who are more likely to be psychologically abused, with inadequate protections. The Workplace Psychological Safety Act fills that gap by giving employees who experience workplace abuse that meets a toxic work environment standard legal recourse.
When OSHA passed the OSH Act, businesses complied. Business addressed physical safety.
That’s our goal with psychological safety: PREVENTION.
Let’s take ACTION! Email your own state legislators, the Senate Committee, and Senator Greenstein requesting they introduce the Workplace Psychological Safety Act.
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new jersey facts
NICKNAME: The Garden State
STATEHOOD: 1787; 3rd state
POPULATION (as of July 2016): 8,944,469
CAPITAL: Trenton
BIGGEST CITY: Newark
STATE BIRD: eastern goldfinch
STATE FLOWER: common violet
END WORKPLACE ABUSE STATE TEAM MEMBERS: 7
NUMBER OF NEW JERSEY LEGISLATORS ON BOARD: 0
NUMBER OF WORKPLACE PARTNERS WHO SIGNED THE PLEDGE: 3
workplace pledge ENDORSERS
SHOW YOUR COMMITMENT TO PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE WORKPLACES
Through the Workplace Psychological Safety Pledge, End Workplace Abuse aims to create strong workplace psychological safety laws to create psychologically safe workplaces. Policies that ensure psychologically safe workplaces for all Americans help businesses attract the strongest talent, boost productivity, and benefit our entire economy.
At the national and local levels, we are securing business commitments to workplace psychological safety and employee protections. Together, we are actively moving the needle forward to #EndWorkplaceAbuse.
We challenge businesses to take the Workplace Psychological Safety Pledge and commit to:
- Create an anti-bullying policy and train all company workers in it.
- Conduct an annual company-wide workplace climate survey.
- Investigate reports of workplace abuse.
- Enforce the anti-bullying policy through coaching, counseling, or discipline, including termination.
- Publicly share the numbers of workers’ compensation claims, absenteeism, stress leave, attrition rates, reports of discrimination and psychological abuse, workforce gender and racial makeup, and investigation and follow-up action rates.
- Support the Workplace Psychological Safety Act by writing legislators to ensure basic human rights for all workers.
Upon signature and verification, the EWA–NJ will:
- Include your company/organization name/logo on the New Jersey website as a Pledge Partner. (Your company will immediately be recognized.)
- Recognize your company/organization as a Pledge Partner in media, print materials, and programs.
- Include your company/organization and/or representative in events taking place in New Jersey.